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Movies Are Prayers - How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings Josh Larsen

Movies Are Prayers - How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings By Josh Larsen

Movies Are Prayers - How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings by Josh Larsen


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Movies do more than tell a good story. Filmspotting co-host Josh Larsen brings a critic's unique perspective to how movies can act as prayers-expressing lament, praise, joy, confession, and more. When words fail, the perfect film might be just what you need to jump-start your conversations with the Almighty.

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Movies Are Prayers - How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings Summary

Movies Are Prayers - How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings by Josh Larsen

Movies are our way of telling God what we think about this world and our place in it. . . . Movies can be many things: escapist experiences, historical artifacts, business ventures, and artistic expressions, to name a few. I'd like to suggest that they can also be prayers. Movies do more than tell a good story. They are expressions of raw emotion, naked vulnerability, and unbridled rage. They often function in the same way as prayers, communicating our deepest longings and joys to a God who hears each and every one. In this captivating book, Filmspotting co-host Josh Larsen brings a critic's unique perspective to how movies function as expressions to God of lament, praise, joy, confession, and more. His clear expertise and passion for the art of film, along with his thoughtful reflections on the nature of prayer, will bring you a better understanding of both. God's omnipresence means that you can find him whether you're sitting on your sofa at home or in the seats at the theater. You can talk to him wherever movies are shown. And when words fail, the perfect film might be just what you need to jump-start your conversations with the Almighty.

About Josh Larsen

Josh Larsen is the co-host of the radio show and podcast Filmspotting, as well as editor and film critic at Think Christian, a faith and culture website. He's been writing and speaking about movies professionally for more than two decades. Josh's career began in the mainstream newspaper business, where he started out as a beat reporter for a weekly community newspaper and went on to become the film critic for the Chicago-based Sun-Times Media for more than ten years. In 2011, he joined the Christian media landscape as editor of Think Christian, and in 2012 he joined the long-running weekly podcast Filmspotting, aired on WBEZ in Chicago. A veteran of the Sundance, Toronto, and Chicago International Film Festivals, Josh has given talks on film and faith at various Christian colleges. He also led the Ebert Interruptus, a tradition established by Roger Ebert that analyzes a single film scene by scene over several days, at the University of Colorado's Conference on World Affairs. Josh lives in the Chicago area with his wife and two daughters. Matt Zoller Seitz is the editor in chief of RogerEbert.com. He is also the TV critic for New York magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. His writing on film and television has appeared in The New York Times, Salon.com, The New Republic and Sight and Sound. Seitz is the founder and original editor of the influential film blog The House Next Door, now a part of Slant Magazine, and the cofounder and original editor of Press Play, an IndieWire blog of film and TV criticism and video essays.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Matt Zoller Seitz
1. Movies Are Prayers?
2. Movies as Prayers of Praise
3. Movies as Prayers of Yearning
4. Movies as Prayers of Lament
5. Movies as Prayers of Anger
6. Movies as Prayers of Confession
7. Movies as Prayers of Reconciliation
8. Movies as Prayers of Obedience
9. Movies as Prayers of Meditation and Contemplation
10. Movies as Prayers of Joy
11. Prayer as Journey
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index of Movie Titles
Index of Movies by Type of Prayer

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CIN0830844783VG
9780830844784
0830844783
Movies Are Prayers - How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings by Josh Larsen
Used - Very Good
Paperback
InterVarsity Press
20170613
208
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